Photo by Jennifer Peterson

Team Iowa USA Wrestling is headed to Indianapolis, Indiana this weekend for the 2017 Schoolboy/girl National Duals.Over the past few years team Iowa has steadily improved their finishes at the tournament, including the Greco-Roman team’s all-time best finish last year.

Last year’s Greco team brought home a seventh place finish at the tournament, which was up 11 spots from the 2015 team. It’s obviously impossible to duplicate that kind of jump for 2017, but this year’s squad will hope to continue the state’s progression.

The Freestyle team was able to back up the Greco team’s performance by taking eighth overall to assure that Iowa made the Gold/Silver bracket in both styles. Iowa’s second freestyle team finished 13th in the tournament as well.

The state will also be looking to keep their streak alive of placing wrestlers on the All-Tournament team. most recently Chance Lamer made the all-tournament team for his undefeated performance while Brandon O’Brien, Carter Fousek, and Matthew Lewis made the all-freestyle team. In 2015 Cullan Schriever and Cade DeVos were the only two Iowans to finish with undefeated records.

Schedule:

Thursday, June 8

Session 1- Greco (Preliminary Pool Rounds 1 – 2 – 3)
8:00 am 2:00 pm
Session 2 – Greco (Preliminary Pool Rounds 4 – 5 – 6)
3:00 pm 9:00 pm

Friday, June 9

Session 3 – Greco Gold/Silver, Bronze/Copper, Red/Blue, Green/Yellow (3 Rounds)
8:00 am 2:00 pm
Session 4 – Greco Finals and Awards (1 Round)
2:30 pm 4:30 pm

Saturday, June 10

Session 1 – Freestyle (Rounds 1 –2 – 3)
8:00 am 2:00 pm
Session 2 – Freestyle (Rounds 4 – 5 –6)
3:00 pm -9:00 pm

Sunday, June 11

Session 3 – FS Gold/Silver, Bronze/Copper, Red/Blue, Green/Yellow (3 Rounds)
8:00 am-2:30pm
Session 4 – FS Finals and Awards (1 Round)
2:30 pm 4:30 pm

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Greco-Roman –